Tutorials

The course features a series of practical tutorials in which participants carry out exercises, further developing skills learnt during the course.

Tutorial 1: Mapping domestic electricity usage in Greater London

Data from the Office of National Statistics is imported into QGIS and joined to existing polygon data to form a georeferenced layer showing energy usage. A style is then developed to enable the data to be easily visualised.

Participants will learn how to import data from a spreadsheet, join tables, use SQL queries to find features and create a meaningful style.

Tutorial 3: Comparing the extent of urbanisation in Brighton

Tutorial 3 uses out-of-copyright mapping to compare the extent of the city of Brighton over time. After source mapping has been georeferenced, the extent of urbanisation will be digitised using QGIS’ vector editing features. The historical extent will then be compared to a current map

Participants will learn how to georeference digital images, digitise new vector features and edit the geometry of existing features.